Detecting security misconfigurations and vulnerabilities
Most of the cloud threats that you will find will be due to security misconfigurations or a lack of understanding of how the cloud works. So, it is critical to understand how to find misconfigurations and how to quickly analyze and fix them. SCC reports findings from four categories of detectors:
- Security Health Analytics
- Rapid Vulnerability Detection
- Web Security Scanner
- VM Manager vulnerabilities
Now let us look at each of them to understand the details.
Security Health Analytics
SHA is a service within SCC that has built-in detectors to identify misconfigurations. SHA automatically scans your Google Cloud organization for known vulnerable configurations against compliance benchmarks such as CIS, PCI DSS, NIS 800-53, ISO 27001, and the OWASP Top 10. SHA scans begin around an hour after SCC is turned on and can be done in one of two modes: batch mode, which conducts scans twice a day, 12 hours...
